Is this enough quilting?

I've machine quilted along both sides of the seams of this

baby I Spy quilt, but I don't want to interfere with the prints. 

I'm wondering aloud how to proceed,

and considering hand quilting a small motif

in each 6 inch block

just to avoid unnecessary puckering.

Black and white and read all over

I've finished the top for this baby I Spy quilt.

I choose to use lots of black and white prints

as well as text prints, and that great Kaufman camera print

to reflect a newspaper angle for this quilt.

The baby is still gestating for another month,

so I have time to quilt and bind at a reasonably leisurely pace.

I'm pondering my quilting options:

Which do you prefer:

1. Pumpkin seed style curves around the edges of blocks

2. straight stitching on both sides of blocks

I want to avoid going right through the centre of the blocks.

The squares are 6 inches, and I'm using 80/20 Warm and Natural as the batting.

I'm linking up with The Needle and Thread Network

A snowstorm quilt!

March sixty-six

16.5 by 16.5 inches

machine pieced and quilted

I don't know what the weather is like where you live,

and mostly I don't care,

because where I live, we have lots of snow.

So last night I made a snowstorm quilt

It's made from scraps of an IKEA text fabric

framed in white.

I like the abstract quality of the written numbers when they're cut up 

Here's the back.

I freemotioned the words for numbers in the centre

and straightlined stitched the borders.

And here's the inspiration.

Lots and lots of fluffly, wet snow

on March 4, 2013,

leading people to compare this one

to that really big one on March 4, 1966.

Where I live, we only had 13 centimetres,

but west of here, some folks had three or four times that amount.

People still talk about that big one in '66.

I remember playing between huge walls of snow that winter.

My baby brother was only six weeks old

and my parents took the opportunity of being snowed in

to take some photos of their kids.

Yup, that's me, with my 60s pixie cut!

I'm linking up with WIP Wednesday at TNTN.